Hilton Garden Inn Clocks…
OK, this isn’t really a Semantic Web post at all (sorry PlanetRDFers) but I thought I’d share the following odd fact…
I’m on my second week of travel going to various and sundry meetings. Monday night, I was in a Hilton Garden Inn in Albany New York. Hilton Garden Inn brags that every room has an electronic clock radio with an MP3 player and there was one in the room. Very nice, except for one odd thing, the clock was five minutes fast and there was no obvious way to change the time setting (I tried all combinations of button press, looked for instructions, and even called the desk - since I was getting obsessive).
Here’s the thing - Tuesday night I stayed at a different Hilton Garden Inn in Norfolk, Virginia - about 500 miles away. You guessed it, same kind of clock, and it was also 5 minutes fast.
So this seemed odd - I Googled various strings to see if I could find someone else reporting this phenomenom to see if this was just a weird coincidence or some kind of corporate conspiracy (or a broken central clock) - but I have yet to find anyone else complaining - so I figured I should blog this, and we’ll see if we can find out…
